How do you check to see that the file is created properly? I don't have any way to examine a PDF file to see whether the fonts are embedded.
> There are a number of open source utilities that can list the fonts in a PDF. > poppler is available with "brew" and has a pdffonts utility that can list the > fonts referenced in a PDF and whether or not they are embedded. > http://macappstore.org/poppler/ > You can also run the PDF through ghostscript. If ghostscript shows any > messages about font files, the document references fonts that are not > embedded. > Regards, William Bader, Director of Research and Development at SCS, > http://www.newspapersystems.com > $ pdffonts colorcir.pdf > name type encoding emb > sub uni object ID > ------------------------------------ ----------------- ---------------- --- > --- --- --------- > Times-Roman Type 1 Standard no > no no 8 0 > $ pdffonts eulalia-programa.pdf > name type encoding emb > sub uni object ID > > ------------------------------------ ----------------- ---------------- --- > --- --- --------- > VLEXCA+GillSans-UltraBold TrueType WinAnsi yes > yes yes 229 0 > VLEXCA+Larsseit-Bold Type 1C Custom yes > yes yes 169 0 > VLEXCA+Larsseit-Light Type 1C Custom yes > yes yes 164 0 > VLEXCA+Larsseit Type 1C Custom yes > yes yes 160 0 > > $ gs -sDEVICE=nullpage -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH colorcir.pdf > GPL Ghostscript 9.16 (2015-03-30) > Copyright (C) 2015 Artifex Software, Inc. All rights reserved. > This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details. > Processing pages 1 through 1. > Page 1 > Can't find (or can't open) font file > /usr/share/ghostscript/9.16/Resource/Font/NimbusRomNo9L-Regu. > Can't find (or can't open) font file NimbusRomNo9L-Regu. > Querying operating system for font files... > Loading NimbusRomNo9L-Regu font from > /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n021003l.pfb... 4138108 2771096 5513624 > 4134924 3 done. > > > > Thanks William, this is very helpful. It gives me a way to check without having to reboot into Windows. Both pdffonts and gs are verifying what I found the hard way: the fonts aren't embedded except in the case where I specify "Embed all fonts" in the PDF export dialog. (Christoph: Specifying "Subset" on the Book Antiqua font in Preferences did not make a difference. The fonts still don't get embedded (or subsetted, apparently). BTW, I looked at the online Scribus manual and I do understand now what "subset" means in this context). Michael
